Hardcover, 336 pages
English language
Published Dec. 4, 2020 by Canongate Books.
The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to new ideas of love, sex and freedom.
A foundational work of dystopian fiction, inspiration for both Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, WE is a book of radical imaginings - of control and rebellion, surveillance and power, machine intelligence and human inventiveness, sexuality and desire. It is both a warning and a hope for a better world.
This new edition also includes Ursula K. Le Guin's essay 'The Stalin in the Soul' on the enduring influence of Zamyatin's masterpiece, and George Orwell's 1946 review of WE.
I get it but I don't like it:
"this book is a bit dull. similar experience to 1984. ugh, why do people like stuff like this?"
"It’s just finally getting interesting. I was so bored for half the book I mixed up some of the characters. I get why this is an important sci-fi text but I still don’t love it."
